Ennui.
“Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.”
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
I’d completely forgotten that word existed, and now that I’ve read it I’m shocked that it hasn’t been used far more often over recent years. Perfect! Thank you.
Inside Out 2 had Ennui as a character, very enjoyable.
So did Zoolander. The name didn’t make much sense there though.
It’s called burnout in its mid stage I would say
Unrecognized potential that is constantly squashed by the burden of a capitalist society that uses you for manual labour.
I call it 😐
I call it hhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I seldom have the energy to want to break new ground, but I sure do want to disappear into the woods a lot.
Tech is like that. We’re aware of the newest developments (which used to be cool and exciting) and now it’s depressing and scary.
Alienation
Came here to say this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
Yes. It’s called Hunkering Down and Eating Pizza and Watching Movies and Daydreaming About the Rest.
And rest api’s
Life.
Welcome to Life, the new interactive experience that will grind you down and kill your dream. Now a Microsoft copilot company!
I may or may not have a pizza in the oven right now that I will be eating the entirety of in one sitting…
Either “the duality of humankind” or “cognitive dissonance”. Or both, I’m not a cop.
Is it ok if I want to do all of those things EXCEPT the “profession” thing? And if so, what’s the word for THAT?
Whiteness
Care to explain what about this is white?
when all you want is
eat pizza and watch movies
Consume
Sure, anyone can eat pizza and watch movies. That’s not white, particularly.
break new ground in your profession
Work
Sure, some people are driven by being the best in their field of work. Not poor people generally, usually well-off white-collar professionals. That’s not necessarily white, but it’s getting closer.
quit society to live in the woods
Hyperindividualist escapism
Again, not exclusively white at it’s base, but romanticized dropping out of society is heavily white in literature, but also it requires severing nearly all the relationships that sustain you, which is a very white thing, as most non-white people actually have their survival and safety nets intimately tied with their communities.
go explore the world forever
The privilege of empire. The digital nomad culture is almost 75% white.
This ultimately cinched it for me. Who gets to travel the world forever? That’s a European Grand Tour for the wealthiest white people, and the poor white people all fantasize about being wealthy white people, mostly because the wealthy white people produce culture that glorifies their own exploits so everyone else just sort of assumes it’s what they should aspire to.
If you don’t see it, that’s fine.
The “hyperindividualist escape” is one thing.
But conceding, and even condemning, the desire to have all the food(s) you enjoy, to become good at something, and to enjoy both the natural and man-made beauty of this planet as “white” activities is giving whiteness too much credit. The natural world is beautiful and has been populated by even more beatiful things despite whiteness. So hell yeah, I’d love to spend a lifetime getting to experience it firsthand, while eating my favorite foods and becoming good at something.
Whiteness drained and is still draining the life and riches out non-white people and places. Why the hell would you grant them an exclusive claim on any types of non-destructive fun too?
“Who gets to travel the world forever?” Yeah, and “who gets to vote and have land?” “Who gets to learn at university?” Don’t just cede good shit to whiteness.
You’ve convinced me. Although I don’t think a nomadic lifestyle should be the privilege of only one class or of one group of people - there have been lots of nomadic cultures and they are just as valid as settled cultures.
Sure, but those cultures didn’t generally travel the world forever. They just weren’t tied to their land via agriculture so they roamed with the climate and the ecosystem dynamics. It’s not like nomadic cultures went continent hopping
Isn’t “continent hopping” exactly how humans ended up in the Americas to begin with?
No. Human migration is not “traveling the world forever” in this context. There’s a huge difference between going to Argentina this summer for a few months and then popping over the Colombia for a weekend before heading to France for a jazz festival and staying another couple of weeks before heading to Cologne for the weekend and then the real fun going to Zimbabwe and doing some safari, and spending centuries and multiple generations migrating following climate and the hunt.
True, but I still think that travel should be more accessible, not less.
So you’re claiming PoC are immune to this? M’kay…
I didn’t say anything about PoC, did I?
Well, that explains it - you’re either a lawyer, and/or mentally a five year-old (likely both) with side-stepping non-responses like that. If you want to be treated like an adult, act like one and justify your comment instead of just hiding behind a technicality while ignoring the elephant in the room.
Wow. Someone’s upset that I didn’t say anything about PoC when they really wanted to accuse me of saying something about PoC.
Right. 🙄🤡
Yeah, this seems pretty self-centered, I want these things but mostly I wanna get rid of capitalism and fascism.
Maybe his profession is revolutionary :)
Racist pos.
Can’t be racist against whites, my friend. Do some learning
Existential crisis
Probably depression.
Space explorer. Your own self-sustaining ship, forest optional, which you use to explore the world forever, very far away from society.
